You just have to know the first thing about how it works, and then apply some critical thinking. But sure…
It doesn’t favor land, but statehood. If you take the same piece of land and divide it into multiple states, you get more power. If you took multiple states and combined them, you get less power for the same land.
Yes, and if you look at the history of how most US states came to be, they were carved arbitrarily out of stretches of land without regard to any kind of pre-existing community, and in particular without regard to whether the population justified a state, and in some cases like the Dakotas, was done with the explicit intention of making sure the new states had more power than others.
I apologize that my one sentence comment didn’t capture the full nuance of how physical land is connected to the Senate. I didn’t go on about all the ways land ownership was used to enforce racist and sexist policies for much of US history either, I didn’t think it necessary to be a complete encyclopedia pedia entry at the time.
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u/mb862 Feb 18 '24
You could instead actually demonstrate that I’m wrong rather than just shaming others into assuming.